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Yet another *sigh* Pickguard poll….
- Thread starter Dark Horse
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Not a fan of scratch plates. I try to avoid them. But if I had to have one then it would be black.
This has to be the best looking piece of tort I've ever seen....The aged/golden middle layer is just perfection.
....Especially with the gold and chrome.
....Especially with the gold and chrome.
Gold body with rosewood board? The answer is brown tort. Here's my Aztec Gold Lakland. Came with parchment, which I replaced with brown tort as soon as it was delivered. (Had to have it made because of the Chi-Sonic pickups.) The Aztec Gold looks different in different lighting. Original Parchment and replacement Brown Tort:
In this case, tort looks the best, followed by black and then maybe white or pearloid. In general, I often gravitate towards the anodized gold stuff. 4 out of 8 of mine have some variation of gold anodized pg
No point in a cheap plastic plate to prevent scratches from a pick if you don't use a pick. Using a pick to make a bass sound better is like putting high heals on an elephant to make it walk better. Opinions vary? They're largely irrelevant.
My gold bass started off as gold with tort. When choosing that combination, I hadn't appreciated that gold is quite a deep tone. Only in the right lighting did the metallic finish and the tort really glow.
Had the bass been spending its life on stage or in a sundrenched home, it would have been fine, but it wasn't, and the gold and the tort usually looked like a gloomy muddle.
Parchment was good for giving the gold life and keeping things warm:
Had the bass been spending its life on stage or in a sundrenched home, it would have been fine, but it wasn't, and the gold and the tort usually looked like a gloomy muddle.
Parchment was good for giving the gold life and keeping things warm:
Looks like the perfect blend between gold, off white and rosewood to me.
Maybe not always tort, but it does look great on that particular bass.
Looks like tort is in the lead. No shocker there, tort always wins these polls.
I’m surprised that black is in second place, and I thought mint would rate higher than Parchment. I wasn’t sure how anodized would do, seems like a love/hate thing for many people.
Got a few more days of poll left…
I’m surprised that black is in second place, and I thought mint would rate higher than Parchment. I wasn’t sure how anodized would do, seems like a love/hate thing for many people.
Got a few more days of poll left…
i voted "mint" even though i have a penchant for black most of the time. and as much as i hate to put it in print: tort looks pretty good too! 
